Do NOT, and I repeat, DO NOT get any part of your face waxed before riding (or running or outdoor sport involving wind and copious amounts of sweat). I happen to have large amounts of excess hair on my face. Not the wiry, old lady kind, but the fluffy, downy variety. So I wax twice a month, and get my brows and lip and stuff along with it. I hate it, hate it, hate it, but I hate being furry more. And I guess the gods of timing never made me do it before my daily outdoor activity. IT IS A BAD IDEA.
The point was to have my face recovered to the extent that I would look silky smooth and hairless for drinks tonight with my SO. So I thought, logically, that I would go get it done, go for a run...since the road bike is currently inoperable. Come home, check my computer, shower, change, put on something stunning (jeans, tank, flip flops) and be ready for him around 7ish. I endured the de-hairing process and set out in the park for my run. It is, mind, close to 100 degrees, and has been raining a bit, so 80 percent humidity. It doesn't take long for sweat to roll down my forehead onto my newly bared brow line. It felt like bees had taken roost. I tried to remedy it by wiping it away, but all it did was rub the salt into the wound...as they say. I am surprised somone didn't call my own dang PD and send someone from my own dang shift (it was my early day so everyone else was still working) to investigate a girl in the park swatting at her own face. It was miserable. I arrived back at my car and looked in the mirror and everywhere I had waxed (pretty much my entire face) was puffy and red. AND, the excess was she had missed getting off had melted and run. I looked like a candle.
I came home and soaked my face in cool water and it is a little better. But I still look like I have some strange red-face patchy disease. I saw my SO's truck at the PD so he is still at work, running late...at least that is a good thing. With a little time, hopefully I will look a little less frightening. I don't want to have to explain how I got this way.